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Sweden had a total of 35 destroyer-class vessels throughout the Cold War, most of them World War II models. As time went on, Sweden begun to put less effort in keeping large surface combatants and instead increasingly relied on patrol boats, fast attack craft, coastal artillery and air superiority. However this approach (especially the ...
The Carl Gustaf m/45 was replaced as main infantry weapon in the Swedish Armed Forces during the mid-1960s with the 7.62mm Automatkarbin 4 battle rifle, but remained in use for auxiliary troops like artillery gun crews, supply- and engineering troops and the like until starting in 1986 being replaced with the 5.56mm Ak 5 assault rifle. On 2 ...
Rifles of the Cold War (1 C, 56 P) Pages in category "Infantry weapons of the Cold War" The following 85 pages are in this category, out of 85 total.
Served as the main German Cold War machine gun from the late 1950s. Heckler & Koch HK21 - a general purpose machine gun developed in 1961, based on the G3 battle rifle Submachine guns
Pages in category "Rifles of the Cold War" The following 56 pages are in this category, out of 56 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A. AK-47; AK-63;
In 2001, an order was placed for 132 rifles of the upgraded version M82A1M (M107 in American service) to which were added one-piece Picatinny rail, monopod on the stock and various other small improvements. In October 2002 follows a new order for an additional number of M82A1M rifles (Total 200-250). [33] Barrett M95 United States.50 BMG [34]
Lee–Enfield [1] – Main service rifle until the 1950s and afterwards adapted for a variety of specialist roles. EM-2 rifle [2] – Experimental rifle adopted very briefly in 1951. L1A1 Self-Loading Rifle [3] – Main Cold War service rifle from 1954 to 1994. SA80 L85 rifle [4] – Adopted right at the end of the Cold War in 1987.
M1 Garand- Used immediately post War till 1959.Was manufactured in Italy with American help. Beretta BM 59 [1]-Italian improved M14 with select fire. Beretta AR70- Modern rifle for its time in 5.56 introduced 1972.